Comment: Re:Smart people can be dumb (Score 4, Informative) 578
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Gutboy
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Attached to: George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana
Wrong. Police officers can react to anything that is in "plain sight", meaning anything that escapes from your car, be it photons or small particles which we refer to as "scent"
Not true. The U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in U.S. v. Kyllo (2001) that the police can not use infrared cameras to locate "suspicious" concentrations of heat in private places and then get warrants to search. So anything that escapes is not "in plain sight".